A young Canada was knitted into a nation by an explosion of late-19th century railroad-building. But the part that never makes it into Gordon Lightfoot ballads is just how incredibly sleazy the whole thing was.
“The level of corruption in the Canadian political process of the period, especially under the auspices of John A. Macdonald, is truly astounding even to the cynic,” wrote the historian R.T. Naylor in The History of Canadian Business, 1867-1914.
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